About

My name is Maria Q. Stultz. I was born in Colombia many moons ago. That’s where I grew up, went to college, and got my first job as an Industrial Engineer. I am known as “Mafe” there.

Trying to escape from the job and eager for a life change, I went to Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. I got an MBA degree and a great job as a financial analyst in Dallas, so I moved to Texas, where I started dating a very cute and interesting gringo. A few years later, after many esoteric signs of celestial approval, I married him.

I enjoyed my career for several years, but at some point I realized that I was headed in the wrong direction. I was a successful senior analyst, but wasn’t excited by any of the jobs above me. So after some intensive soul-searching, I left my business job to begin training on a field that allowed me to create tangible products; a field that combined my artistic and creative inclination with my undeniably analytical ISTJ mind… And so, I became a Web Designer.

While I always thought that I would eventually have children, it took me a long time to actually make the decision to try for a baby. This site was a great outlet for me to document and discuss that process with friends (the doubts, the decision, the wait). And then I got pregnant and the baby came. And somehow, without any previous planning, I became a stay–at–home mom. It felt right and I loved my baby, yet I struggled with the change and how limited my life turned after becoming a mother. In an attempt to save a piece of my individuality, I awakened my old passion for sewing and handmaking, and after setting up an Etsy shop, I quickly became obsessed with turning once more passion into my next career.